1878 – BORN IN Belostok, Grodno (now – Belarus), brother of the scholar Iakov Perel’man; 1920 – graduated the Institute of Forestry, St. Petersburg; 1905 – contributed short priose to Russian newspapers and to the satirical journals, including ”Signaly”; 1905 – his collection of short stories “Solntsevotot (Solstice)” published in St. Petersburg; 1907 – contributed to the Warsaw weekly “Roman-Zeitung” in Yiddish; 1907 – wrote the play “Slushai, Izrael’!” (Hear, O Israel) in Russian. This and the play “Vechnyi strannik” (The Eternal Wanderer, 1913) were very popular and, translated into Yiddish were staged by a series of theaters in the Pale. They were also translated into Hebrew by P. Kaplan (1870-1943) and Naum Zemach (1887-1939), and were staged by Zemach and his Belostok troupe;; 1912 – his novel “Troubled Spirit” (Tomlenie dukha), in the style of Symbolist prose, published; 1913 – the American entrepreneur and playwright Boris Tomashevskii invites Dymov to stage “The Eternal Wanderer” in New York, where he remains for the rest of his life. He wrote primarily in Yiddish, in which he published about twenty plays, which were translated into Hebrew, German, and Polish and staged in Vilnius, Warsaw, and in various places in Germany and elsewhere; 1943-44 - Dymov’s two-volume memoir “What I Think” (Ṿos ikh gedenḳ: zikhroynes) published in New York. (KEE, vol. 2, col. 401)